[PD] weird error when installing pd

[Pagano, Patrick]

Thanks I will try again in about 1/2 hour 7:3o EST and report  back 
Thanks

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On Jan 28, 2013, at 5:19 PM, "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <hans at at.or.at> wrote:

> On 01/28/2013 02:36 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
>> On 01/28/2013 05:43, Pagano, Patrick wrote:
>>> Installing pd on linux from the website directions i get
>>> 
>>> Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
>>> (Reading database ... 166579 files and directories currently installed.)
>>> Unpacking pd-extended (from
>>> .../pd-extended_0.43.1~20120926-1~quantal1_i386.deb) ...
>>> dpkg: error processing
>>> /var/cache/apt/archives/pd-extended_0.43.1~20120926-1~quantal1_i386.deb
>>> (--unpack):
>>>  trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/cyclist', which is also in package cyclist
>>> 0.1~alpha55-6
>>> dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>>  /var/cache/apt/archives/pd-extended_0.43.1~20120926-1~quantal1_i386.deb
>>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>> 
>> there's an implicit package conflict (both "pd-extended" and "cyclist" try to
>> install the same file and you try to install both packages at the same time).
>> usually, this is handled by marking the two packages to conflict with each
>> other (make them mutually exclusive), or rather: mark one of the packages
>> conflict with the other.
>> 
>> it seems that the pdx package does not have such a conflicts line, which i
>> guess is a bug.
>> 
>> in the meantime, you can simply manually remove the "cyclist" package and
>> install pdx only after that.
> 
> I've just uploaded all of the pd-extended 0.43.4 packages to apt.puredata.info
> and signed them, so you should be getting an update and it should no longer
> have either the "without verification" question or the conflict with 'cyclist'.
> 
> .hc
> 
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